Multilingual E5 Small is part of the E5 family of text embedding models. This small variant contains 12 layers. This model is well-suited for tasks such as:
- Semantic Search: Finding documents or text passages that are semantically relevant to a query.
 - Text Clustering: Grouping similar pieces of text based on their semantic meaning.
 - Informative Response Generation: Following instructions to provide summaries, explanations, or answers to factual queries.
 
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| Launch stage | GA | |
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| Output dimensions | Up to 384 | |
| Number of layers | 12 | |
| Max sequence length | 512 tokens | |
| Supported languages | See Supported languages. | |
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